A major, a martyr, a train station
Beyond the Frontier
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An era seen through a squint of despair
Encyclopedia of The United States in the Twentieth Century
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The Grimm splendour of a grand hotel
The Fontana History of Germany 1780-1914
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Occupied with a clash of symbols
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
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Stars, bars and charting rhythms
America on Record
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Speaking Volumes: John Boyd Orr's Food and the People
On John Boyd Orr's Food and the People. I am an inveterate peruser of secondhand booksellers' catalogues and it was through one nearly 20 years ago that I bought a copy of Sir John Boyd Orr's Food...
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The search for nirvana
How Buddhism Began
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Appointments
European Science Foundation Enric Banda, professor and former Spanish secretary of state for universities and research, will succeed Peter Fricker as secretary general in June 1998. University of...
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Fellowships
The Royal Society Fellows Christopher Bate, reader in the department of zoology, University of Cambridge; John Brady, BP professor of information engineering in the University of Oxford; Michael...
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Honorary degrees
University of East Anglia LittD: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, vice chancellor of the university since 1995; John Fowles, author of The Magus and The Collector who has lectured on several occasions in the...
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Swampy's smart set
The battles being waged by the new wave of green warriors, such as Swampy, are reflected in the rise on campus of environmental literary criticism, or ecocriticism. But as Jennifer Wallace discovers...
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Braising standards
In the second of our series on food, Prue Leith complains about the absence of cooking in education and calls on teachers and academics to embrace this 'fine art' It is now almost impossible for a...
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The last gasps of a dead tongue
Christie Davies argues that as the Welsh language will and must die out, encouraging people to learn it is a pointless exercise The study of Welsh is compulsory in all schools in Wales. In Gwynedd...
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Aspects of global history, as presented this week atthe Anglo- American historians'conference
Professor Terry Ranger, St Anthony's College, Oxford wants to break away from traditional histories of Europeans in black Africa by studying how Africans responded to Europeans in colonial times -...
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Forbidden melodies
In the first of a series of visits to academics' rooms, Kate Worsley is admitted to ethnomusicologist John Baily's shrine to the Afghan music banned by the Taliban Cross-legged, in jeans and stocking...